thing - a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"

situation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt

2.

thing - an action; "how could you do such a thing?"

action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

3.

thing - a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"

abstract, abstraction - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

depicted object, subject, content - something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"

body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge"

essential, necessary, requisite, necessity, requirement - anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

reservoir, source - anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

building block, unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"

variable - something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"

(= what is suitable, best)that’s just the thing for me → das ist genau das Richtige für mich; that’s not the thing to do → so was machtor tut man nicht; his behaviour isn’t quite the thing(dated) → sein Benehmen ist nicht geradeberückend(inf); the latest thing in ties → der letzteSchrei in der Krawattenmode; the thing to do now would be … → was wir jetztmachen sollten, wäre …; that would be the honourable thing to do → es wäre nur anständig, das zu tun

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